Experts are now saying we’ll have $3 a gallon gasoline by the Fourth of July. I wonder if these are the same guys that, a couple of months ago, predicted $5 a gallon by the Fourth of July.

It’s popular to tear into the owners of gasoline stations when prices go up. “Gas was 20 cents cheaper when I was in Green Bay,” someone will say. “Why is it so expensive here?” That’s a good question, but I don’t believe the local owners are highway robbers.

Heck, Iron Mountain-Kingsford has more than a handful of abandoned gas stations — businesses that have gone belly-up. If there’s so much money in being a gas station owner, wouldn’t you think that someone would reopen those stations?